Re: q for quit in plot windows

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 01 June 2007 07:15, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> >=20
> > 1) It already exists in the form of the ctrl-q option in x11 and wxt
> > 2) This is doomed to be completely opaque to the user, as is the current
> > ctrl-q solution in my opinion
>=20
> My proposal is different from ctrl-q. It describes the inner way of=20
> gnuplot code, not a user interface/option. This must be hidden from the=20
> user; user does not care about the implementation of built-in bindings.

Timoth=E9e's point is that the ctrl-q mechanism already implements your
on/off proposal.  So far as I understand what you are proposing, there
would be no difference between your "off" state and the current=20
"ctrlq" state (except, of course, what happens if you type ctrl-q :-)


I have a much simpler proposal.
Let's get rid of the 'q' and ' ' built-ins altogether.

Any usable window manager provides at least one button and/or hotkey
to kill windows, and the local user is familiar with the conventions
of his own desktop.  Why should we duplicate, badly, what is already
present?=20

If you want to bind 'q' to "set term x11 close MOUSE_KEY_WINDOW",
do that as a user binding.

=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742